The Kington Times - March 1918
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Kington Times 16th March 1918 - Page 4
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| Date | 16/03/1918 |
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| Type | Newspaper |
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| Language | English |
| Area | Kington Times |
| Collection Holder | Herefordshire Libraries |
| Date of Publication | 16th March 1918 |
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1 4 LEOMINSTER COUNTY COURT . Monday ; Before His Honour Judge A. A. Tobin , K.C. CLERGYMAN'S GROCERY BILL . FOOD CONTROL ORDERS PRODUCED . supplied . THE KINGTON TIMES , In addressing His Honour for the defendant Mr. Levick said he regretted the letter which he had written . Defendant wished his wife to have all the things which belonged to her . Edwin Edwards , the defendant , said he was a machinist in the employ of the Leominster Rural District Council . His attention was drawn to the withdrawal of £ 10 from his wife's bank book on October 9th , 1914. He should say the book was his , but he did not draw any The Rev. A. V. I. Bickerstaff , Vicar of Hat - money out as it was in her name . When they field , Leominster , was sued by Henry Bach , were first married they lived at Manchester grocer , Leominster , for £ 12 3s . , for goods and he gave his wife all his earnings , 28s . , He scarcely ever Mr. W. P. Levick was for the plaintiff , who and she bought his tobacco . had a drink . and at first he earned between 2 and £ 3 per Then he came to Herefordshire week . When his money was more than they required he supposed she put it in the bank and it was for his benefit as much as hers . He looked upon it as his money but he did not draw it out . He knew what became of the Mrs. Edwards drew £ 10 out on 30th April , 1914 , for a set of teeth . On October 19th she drew £ 7 to go to Birmingham where she gave birth to a child by another man . In reply to the Judge defendant said this was in 1916. He did not tell Mr. Levick these things . stated the sum claimed was for groceries sup- plied . Every article had been properly charged and no article charged beyond the He price allowed by the Food Controller . had to close the account with defendant on a previous occasion until he paid . Defendant said he objected to some of the items as being incorrect according to the Food Controller's Orders . I have had His Honour : Which items are incorrect ? Is part owing ? Defendant : Yes , part is owing . no time to examine the accounts . His Honour : But were the goods delivered at your house . There were invoices ? Defendant : My housekeeper has burnt them . Defendant said that on September 8th he was charged 1s . 11d . for 7 lbs . of flour . This should have been is . 4d . Plaintiff said it was self - raising flour . Defendant produced the Order in question and the Judge pointed out that on and after September 17th the price allowed for self- raising flour was 34d . per lb. , so that for 7 lbs . plaintiff was entitled to charge 2s . old ... Defendant : I did not know it was self- raising flour . Defendant then drew attention to a charge of 2s . for 2 lbs . of jam , which he said was excessive . Plaintiff Two 1 lb. pots of strawberry jam were sent at Is . each . Defendant : If that is the explanation- His Honour : It is the explanation and you should have got it from your housekeeper . Defendant : One bag of flouf , sixpence . What weight is that ? Plaintiff I cannot say now . Defendant : On October 5th 2 lbs . plum jam were charged 1s . 7d . , the maximum being IS . 5d . said one lb. of plum , and e Plaintiff said one lb. of plum and one lb. of damson jam were sent as they were out of 2 lb. pots and sent the nearest they had to the order . His Honour : It may be puzzling to you but you have had the jam and I expect have eaten it and your housekeeper has had the pleasure of burning the invoices . Defendant produced the Jam Prices Order , which His Honour examined and pointed out that plaintiff was entitled to charge 9d . for a lb. pot of plum or damson jam .. Defendant's housekeeper accepted the goods and he would have to pay . Defendant amid silence in the Court went on examining the accounts for a considerable time when the Judge remarked that the public time could not be wasted in dealing with charges without any foundation concerning a penny or three - halfpence and brought by a gentleman of education against a respectable grocer . Defendant : If these items are correct I can only ask- His Honour Supposing you are right , how much has got to be knocked off - about 3d .. ? I am not disposed to allow public time to be wasted upon such questions . Defendant thereupon admitted the debt , and judgment was given for plaintiff . Defendant : When am I to pay ? His Honour : At once ! AYMESTREY COUPLE AT LAW . WIFE'S ACTION FOR RETURN OF FURNITURE AND MONEY . Edwin Edwards , machinist , of Yatton , Aymestrey , was sued by his wife Minnie Ed- wards , also of Aymestrey , who claimed £ 40 odd for furniture and money alleged to have been lent . money . woman . years . In cross - examination defendant said they were living at Yatton in 1916. The longest his wife was away was a month in the summer time . The only money he ever knew she had was in 1912 , when she stole £ 21 off a dead He heard she had a bank book in Birmingham and that she had between £ 30 and £ 40 . She had the book sent to Mrs. Price . His wife denied it . The money was stolen ; how else could she have got it ? He left the Birmingham Waterworks twelve years ago . He then worked for the R.D.C. for 16s . per week . He did not save money to buy stock . He was left £ 43 by his father 17 years ago and had a bank book which had been closed two sault and fined 10s . He admitted he was convicted of as- Mrs. Annie Price , Yatton , wife of Thoma Price , said she had known the parties seven years . Mrs. Maxfield had a sale and only kept enough furniture to furnish one room . She remembered a bank book coming to her house from Birmingham and Mrs. Edwards's daughter fetched it . That was 12 months was livi Aymestrey when Mrs. Edwards ' furniture was When Mr. Edwards was at work they put it on a small trolley except a feather bed , a bedstead and two boxes . Plaintiff re - called said she had some false teeth from Mr. Johnson's , Church Street , Leo minster , 5 or 6 or 7 years ago . She did not draw £ 10 out for thein . The teeth were 46 6s . , and she paid for them by instalments . In final payment she withdrew 19s . from the POTATOES IN BREAD . INTERESTING MEETING AT LEOMINSTER . SERIOUS STATE OF CEREAL SUPPLY . BAKERS RECEIVE PROPOSAL FAVOURABLY . MARCH 16 , 1918 . PARA - QUIT KILLS LICE , FLEAS & OTHER PARASITES KEEPS OFF Mosquitoes and Sandflies Supplied in large quantities to H.M. War Office In Tubes 1/3 Sold by Chemists . Stores and Canteens or post free in U.K. from sole makers LAWSON & Co . ( BRISTOL ) LTD . , ST . PHILIP'S.BRISTOL P.Q. 118 Later Mr. Roberts explaining why the inclu- sion of potatoes in bread had not yet been made compulsory he said it would be most un- fair to the trade to make such an order before the bakers were educated . He pointed out that should a compulsory order come out the following Monday the bakers of Leominster would not be prepared for it . jam made with sugar beyond that amount . If Victory on the bought it will be paid for at controlled prices . Potato Plots . Plots . HOW HOME PRODUCTION HELPS , PIGS IN PLENTY . LORD RHONDDA'S RESOLUTION . SUGAR FOR JAM . VICTORY ON THE POTATO PLOTS . England expects every man and woman who has the time and the opportunity will do his and her , duty by joining the ever - increasing army of potato growers . With bumper crops . of potatoes the country can never be starved- and remember all the combatant countries are Due regard will also be had to the quantity of fruit likely to be available and to the ap- plicant's facilities for preserving . More pulping stations are to be installed in the principal fruit - growing districts . It is es- timated that fruit pulped at these stations will keep for at least two years and can be made into jam at any time by the addition of sugar . By these means and official control over the transportation and marketing of fruit it is . hoped to make the fullest use of this season's fruit crop . HABIT V. HUNGER . Sir Charles Bathurst , M.P. , addressing a meeting of Glamorgan agriculturists recently at Swansea , said the farmers ' duty was nothing less than saving the country . from starvation . It was unreasonable to ask farmers to put of increased production unless consumers were restrained from eating more than health and efficiency demanded , Our consumption per head of the population was still about 50 per cent . greater than that of Germany and double that of Austaa Hungary and Turkey , so were a long way from starvation on our present Never , according to official returns , rations . to - day , which was evidence that some had been was the health of the nation better than it was we like all connected with the land , the British farmer was patriotic to the backbone , and was prepared to sacrifice as much as any other class for the good of the country and the winning of the war .. An important meeting convened by the Mayor was held at the Town Hall , Leominster , on Thursday night , in reference to the use of potatoes in bread with the object of reducing Mr. Roberts , the consumption of cereals . of the Government , to explain technical points Chairman of the Hereford Bakers ' Association . attended on behalf of the Wheat Commission to the trade , which was fully represented . Among those present were Ald . G. Page , Coun- Emoch , Mrs. Jarvis ( members of the Borough said the varieties of potatoes recommended fighting with the spectre of famine by their their backs and money into the additional cost cillor Southall , Councillor Watkins , Mr. T. J Food Control Committee ) , Mr. J. W. Price were King Edward , Arran Chief , and Up - to- side . ( Executive Officer to the Rural District ) , Coun- Date . His experience of King Edward had " We cannot have too many potatoes , " says cillor H. Reynolds , Councillor G. Gough , and " The State is not going to not been favourable , but he belieyed it de- Lord Rhondda . the following bakers Messrs . W. H. Batten , pended on the ground . The Food Control commandeer any potatoes grown on allotments , H. Foster , A. Rouch , A. Pewtress , Poiner , Committees were supposed to buy locally so as Colley , Collins , J. Hill , Hatton , Lloyd ( Leo- to save transport . but in any district where there is a surplus I shall be prepared to buy on the same terms as minster ) , F. Reynolds and J. Brindley ( Kings- the potatoes grown on big farms . Allotment land ) , Frances ( Brimfield ) , Hyde ( Yarpole ) . lolders will , I know , do their duty . Perhaps The Mayor said he called the meeting at the I may alter that fabled saying about Waterloo request of the Royal Commission on the Wheat The war is being fought on the potato Plots Supply , Bread Section , the object being in of Great Britain . relation to the use of potatoes in bread . He introduced Mr. Roberts , of Hereford , who had sians be your food battle cry , and dig , dig , dig ! health . Spades are trumps ! Let Potatoes v . Prus- eating more food than was conducive to good The craving of habit was often mis- been sent by the Government to explain the No work at home is of greater national im- taken for the craving of hunger . position . Mr. Hill asked whether the mash was put portance than the planting and cultivation of If the consumer had got to alter his habits Mr. Roberts , who tackled his subject in a in warm or cold . potatoes . Every available inch of garden and from necessity it was even more essential that practical and pleasant manner , said he was The British , Mr. Roberts said it did not appear to make allotment must be made to yield an abundance farmers should change theirs . not a lecturer , but a baker . He had not any difference , but in the summer time large of " spuds . " Potatoes farmer was a most individualistic and conser are easy to grow . sought the position in which he was that night , bakers would have difficulty in cooling the Amateur gardeners can seek advice from their vative man . The farmer hated Government for like other business men he had all he mash sufficiently . neighbours who have had experience of the interference , and no blame to him . " He dis could do to conduct his own business , but the position was so serious that he could not re- said he would like to submit the following cheap gardening books full of quite simple No further questions being put , Mr. Roberts growing of potatoes . Gardening papers and liked all changes in his methods , even thougn some were to his own ultimate advantage . Still , sist the invitation to attend these meetings and resolution to them : That the bakers of Leo- hints for beginners can be had anywhere . explain the position in the national interest . minster and district agree in supporting the Every individual who successfully cultivates Proceeding , Mir . Roberts stated that he Ministry of Food and will do all in their an allotment is doing valuable service for the abonded a conference on the subject in Lon- power to put potatoes into bread as quickly State by producing more food . We are all out don , when Mr. Owen Baines , head of the de- as possible . " He said he wished this thing to to win the war . The last sack of potatoes , as partment , presided and they had bakers there be undertaken voluntarily and he hoped they Mr. Prothero says , may turn the scale . Food from all parts of the country . The seriousness would pass that resolution . is the pivot of all our war activities , and no of the position in regard to the cereal supply crop yields such large returns of human food of the country , and the advantage of using as the potato . Spades are trumps ! And the potatoes in flour was put before them . potato is King of the food pack !. were then each asked to take a district and make the position known . His own district in- cluded flerefordshire , Brecknockshire , part of Monmouthshire and Montgomeryshire . They had undertaken the work voluntarily . their time was given for the good of the coun- try , all they got was their expenses , but he was prepared to spend and be spent in the interests of the nation . They had sent him to all sorts of out of the way places , but this was the first meeting in Herefordshire that he had been asked to attend . That was on July 12th , 1912 . NDED FOR USING POTATOES . With regard to the suggestion as to the purpose for which the £ 7 was spent , she indignantly Mr. Roberts said first of all there was the Dealing with the need for using potatoes denied it . £ 7 was spent , she indi They would be in a tight from Mr. Johnson the truth about this case ? -corner before the next harvest . There was His Honour : Would you like me to find out shortage of grain . plenty of grain in Australia , but they had no other hand there was sufficient and more of said that all he regretted was that his own ships to spare to bring it . What was playing the bear with us was the U - boat . On the Mr. Roberts in reply to the vote of thanks . potatoes . They grew last year three million county was not more alive to the seriousness tons more than the previous year , outside allot of the situation , Leominster being the first ments . This year the harvest might be a week place in the county to which he had been m- or two late . If they used potatoes they would vited . With regard to the supply of potatoes be pushing the end of the grain supply nearer to the bakers , the Food Control Committee to the harvest . The grain would be wanted , should have had notice of the scheme . The but grain would keep and potatoes would not . reduced price of £ 3 103. was arranged in order to induce bakers to use potatoes . There was a compulsory order coming in , They wanted the bakers to get on with it at once . Don't wait for a compulsory order . but they wanted the trade to be loyal and patriotic and take this up on their own in or der to help the country . ago . Mrs. Beaumont said she removed . bank . Yes . was living at the notices of withdrawal for the io and the The Judge : I can get from the Post Office and the receipts . could get them . Plaintiff I should be very pleased if you His Honour then asked defendant if he from the Post Office . wished the case adjourned to get the forms Defendant I leave it in your hands .. His Honour Do you ask me to ? -Yes . next Court for the production of the dentists His . Honour then adjourned the case to the account with the dates and amounts of pay ment . With regard to the Post Office docu- ments he would certify that it was absolutely imperative in the interests of justice that they should be produced . His Honour then directed the parties to sign their names and also write the words Wigmore and Leominster . Edwards was also directed to write his wife's name . Mr. Tyrrell mentioned the fact that under the agreement the boy was to be returned to the mother . Edwards , however , had refused to do so . Mr. Levick said he had advised defendant Mr. Tyrrell ( Ludlow ) was for the plaintiff that he ought to carry out his promises . ~ and Mr. W. P. Levick for the defendant . Edwards said the boy would not go to his Mr. Tyrrell said that plaintiff and defendant mother . were wife and husband . They married twenty His Honour offered to see the boy in private years ago and had lived at Aymestrey . There and having done so said he had no jurisdic- d of They Mr. Hatton seconded and the resolution was carried unanimously . G BUT T NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH . To supply the essential needs of the nation in 1918 and 1919 , and to avoid the risk of famine , it was desirable that another million acres should be sown during the next few weeks with spring corn or potatoes , not forgetting suitable forage crops to take the place of im- ported foodstuffs , particularly for cattle and pigs . FOOD FACTS FROM FAR AND NEAR . This month will see the introduction of national , control tea . Owing to the labour en- weeks before all retailers will be supplied with tailed in distributing the tea it may be some Councillor Southall in proposing a vote of thanks to Mr. Roberts said this was not a matter of profiteering . Mr. Roberts was go- ing about the country for his bare expenses Most women in Great Britain must have and neglecting his business for the sake of rejoiced at seeing the message sent by Lord All the country . He was quite certain every in- Rhondda and Mr. Clynes to the men on active dividual baker in this neighbourhood would service . It has been , a matter of deep regret be as patriotic as Mr. Roberts had been . They to all good wives and mothers that the men were indebted to gentlemen like him who were at the front should be worried by the thought putting all their energy and thought in doing that their dear ones at home were actually in the new blend . But when it is available it the best they could for the nation . This was need of food . Unfortunately many soldiers . will be for sale at 2s . 8d . a lb. , and all tea a very serious question and he was pleased to must have gathered this impression from some think Mr. Roberts had set such a good ex- will be sold at this price . The national con- of the newspaper correspondence , and it can- ample and to find it would be so readily fol- not have added to their peace of mind . trol tea will be classified in three grades ac- Men cording to quality , and each trader will get lowed by the bakers of the district . who come on leave see for themselves how ex- most interesting explanation . Ald Page seconded and said they had had a his share of all grades . It will thus be pos- aggerated is most of the grumbling about food , sible for individual traders to blend the tea He suggested but those who do not have the chance to visit to suit the local water . The Food Controller that the bakers of the town should notify him as Chairman of the Food Control Committee from the newspapers and their home letters . average quality , and has expressly prohibited " Blighty can only form their impressions has ordered that all blends shall be of fair of the quantity of potatoes they would require We cannot eradicate all food complaints from the retail sale of the lowest quality unblended . potatoes they w each week . the newspapers , for grumling is the English way even though half of it is not serous . But all women can cut out the grousing note from their letters . We do not want the men at the front to think that the people at home are bearing NONE of the hardships of war , but on the other hand , we do not want them to be disheartened by any talk of famine amongst their nearest and dearest . We simply want them to be told the truth - which is that , although there is certainly a shortage of soME foods , the homeland is still a long way from the hunger line ; and that the Food Controller is doing everything possible to make the dis- tribution of food equal , so that all shall have a fair share . THE CHILDHOOD OF ANIMALS . LECTURE BY MR . WALTER S. ROWNTREE , AT LEOMINSTER . There was a large audience on Tuesday evening at the Town Hall to hear a lecture under the Oxford University Extension Scheme Mr. Neild , who presided , said the person Not only had he done the work in connection with that lecture , but they stood in his debt for the work he had done in con- nection with the extension lectures for many who should have been in the chair was Mr. Easton . FOOD CONTROL COMMITTEE'S DUTY . He explained that it was the duty of the local Food Control Committee to supply pota- toes at £ 3 10s . per ton and it was important disease , as they were supposed to get 12 lbs . that they should get a good potato without of dry mash out of 15 lbs . of potatoes . Fifteeny Mr. Walter S. Rowntree , B.Sc. ( Honours pounds Lond . , F.L.S. , the subject being " The Child- potatoes was raw the amount hood of Animals . " suggested , but they might have to increase that up to 20 lbs . per sack of 280 lbs . of flour . Speaking of the effect of potatoes on the loaf , he said it enhanced the bloom and pro- duced a distinctive flavour , which was an im- provement . Undoubtedly it kept the bread moister , which was a great thing in the bak- 12 hours . With regard to the increase in yield he was not going to tell them they were going to make a profit out of it . When they had paid for labour and other things they would just make ends meet . There would be no loss however , and if properly managed even more than a return . LORD RHONDDA'S RESOLUTION . There are moments in the lives of each one . taken at a moment when we saw of us when we take strong resolutions , and if they were things as they really are the strong man , would never rest until the resolve had been accom- plished . It is sometimes , provided we have all our faculties , only when we are facing death that we can see clearly . The writer of this stood on Vimy Ridge , as it was swept by thousands of guns , tending the dead , and saw the results of war as clearly as any man could . Rhondda stood on the " Lusitania " as she was Lord were 5 children from 8 to 17 years of age . Un- tion in the matter and could not offer any ery trade now that bread had to be stored for years past , a debt which Leominster would going down and saw the results of German PRICES OF STORE CATTLE . fortunately in the last few years there had been opinion . unhappy differences which had nécessitated his friend Mr. Levick attending Wigmore Petty Sessions on four occasions and himself on three . After doing their best to get the parties to be reconciled they were allowed by the magistrates at Wigmore to draw up an With agreement which the parties signed . regard to the money lent , the wording should . be " money had and received . " MAXIMUM NOT TO BE FIXED . LORD RHONDDA'S WARNING TO FARMERS . The Food Controller has had under considera- tion for some time past the question of con- trolling the price of store attle . A special Agricultural Sub - committee of the Central Ad- visory Committee on Live Stock and Meat Supplies was appointed to deal with the que tion , and they have reported that it is unde- sirable to attempt any system of grading or any direct control of the sale of store animal beyond limiting the dealers ' transactions in regard to such animals to one sale as between the purchaser and the buyer , so that a sale of store cattle by one dealer to another would be prohibited , save in special cases , circum- Irish store cattle , when it might be necessary stances such , for example , as in the case of to sanction the intervention of શ British s well as an Irish dealer . The fact that the basis of maximum prices for fat cattle will not be lowered before June 1 , 1919 , will , in the opinion of the Committee , " Kultur " on the waters around him . He his soul , and the result is a Food Controller whose sympathies , have been broadened towards all those who suffer , and who is determined to see things through . never pay him ( applause ) . That gathering was always a man of strong resolution , but had been arranged because they did not wish these inspired moments put the very iron into to get ont of the lecture habit , and also they felt it was good for all of them in these days of anguish to be able to turn aside for a while to something that had no connection with the war ( applause ) . There was nothing so sooth- ing , nothing that gave hope more strongly to man than to lay his heart as near to the heart of nature as he could . Mr. Neild went on to sound a personal note , referring to the lecturer as an old student . When a student in the biology class which was formed by the famed scholar Dr. Milnes Marshall , he was the head man of his year . PIGS IN PLENTY . * Before the month of March is out the whole of this country will be rationed for meat , and if the rule works as easily in other parts as it is already going in London , there will be little to grumble about . The greatest trouble ap- parently is to remember to carry your meat card with you , and without your coupon you . must go meatless . With a knowledge of the weakness of human nature the Ministry of Food has issued these Golden Rules for Rationees . Don't lose your cards . Keep your cards clean . Don't tear off meat coupons yourself . Find out where your Local Food Office is . And go there if in difficulty . The food problem in Italy practically in- cludes only bread and macaroni , for these are . classes . As a rule meat is only eaten on Sun- the staple foods of the peasants and working days , and tea , butter , margarine and bacon are luxuries to most of the people . But so Italians cheerfully do without all these other It has not been found necessary to foods . long as they have bread and macaroni the ration meat , but now , unfortunately , the use of bread and macaroni has had to be limited , which really imposes much hardship on the Italian peasant and workman . PUBLIC MEETING AT BROXWOOD . WAR AIMS AND FOOD PRODUCTION . He knows what wholesale loss of life means , On Thursday night , March 7th , a very suc MANUFACTURING PROBLEMS . not only by war but by carelessness . He in - cessful meeting was held at the Lower School , tends to save the babies and the children by Broxwood , when the speakers were Mrs. Referring to the technical problems involved fighting on for a Ministry of Health , by estab- Clowes , M.B.E. , and Alderman H. F. Russe " . Mr. Levick admitted that the instalments Mr. Roberts said in many cases the civic lishing in every district . in Great Britain and The chair was taken by Mr. R. Thomas . under the agreement were due , and that cer- authorities had taken it up and were putting Ireland clinics or schools for mothers , by pro- Mrs. Clowes in the course of a very interest - 1 tain articles of furniture belonged to plaintiff . in suitable plant and selling the dry mash to viding for a better milk supply , and by doing ing speech urged all the people to cultivate Mr. Tyrrell said the claim for " books Is . " the bakers . That was a good thing because all that legislation can to build up after the their gardens to the best of their ability , 60 related to an insurance on the life of Mrs. the bakery trade was short of labour . In war a strong and sturdy race . that they may benefit and feed not only them- Maxfield . Before her marriage plaintiff saved other towns the Food Control Committee had Mr. Rowntree expressed his pleasure at This is the man who is now fighting out the selves , but those Jess fortunately situated in some money but lost her savings bank book in taken it on . If there was a large trade it was again meeting Mr. Neild and went on to say food problem for us , who is staving off famine , the towns . She explained how use is going to the post . In 1908 she was given a new book policy for the baker to keep it in his own how glad he was to see so many young people . who is hunting down the food hoarder , who is be made of all the surplus produce grown on and the sum of £ 19 19s . was placed to her hands . In Hereford the smaller bakers ap- Commencing his lecture , which was illustrated vanquishing the profiteer . Try and help him the gardens , either of vegetables or fruit , by . credit . This money had been withdrawn proached him as President and they formed a by a series of beautiful lantern slides , Mr. through a world of difficulties ; if possible by the collecting scheme which has been adopte ! without her consent by the defendant , for the small syndicate to purchase the machinery and Rowntree first dealt with the care of the at , least producing some small portion of the by the Women's War Agricultural Committee , purpose of buying cattle . now the day mash was being produced at the mother for the child . He first showed that food you need yourself , and if not , at least by and how centres were being formed throughout Plaintiff in evidence said she was married Boys ' Home . Where only a small quantity was this care was not shown in the lower orders of showing to your neighbour the spirit of self- the district whereby a motor lorry would call 20 years ago . Twelve or fifteen years ago required there was no serious difficulty and life , but when they got to the higher sorts of sacrifice and cheerfulness and resource and and take the produce , giving a fair mark she left her husband and took a cottage at no doubt some of them would go back to the creatures , birds and mammals , warm - blooded courage in which the Food Controller sets us price for the same . She also spoke of how Aymestrey where she lived with her two chil- old ferment days when brewers ' barm and pota animals , there was a close bond between all a splendid example . Germany as far as her Eastern frontier is con- dren . He returned to her in three months . toes were used . That was the wet mash . The mother and child . In a series of splendid cerned had got all she set out to win , and and they lived together until 3 years ago , Government instructed him to say that dry coloured photographs , Mr. Rowntree illus- what the conquest of the territory would do when she left him in January . mash was the better plan , but the important trated the care of the birds for their young in She left him The production of fats is a matter of such to enable them as far as foodstuffs were con- because lie wrote letters asking her to meet thing was to get the potatoes into the bread nest building , hatching the egg , and feeding should be exploited to remedy the present national urgency that every possible means She urged every He came back and she left him again have a direct effect upon the price of store whatever the method . the fledgling . Maminals were next dealt with , shortage . Fats are not only so essential to the man , woman and child to put their whole She produced her bank cattle , since there will be no inducement to This could The young of the latter children - but to the manufacture of munitions old bank book in her maiden name which had referred to , and on the advice of the Board of mash method . Acting upon the report of the Committee then it would not be so economical as the dry are active from birth , the explanation being that it behoves every one who can to produce cultivating every inch of it , and seeing that that in a wild state the herd was continually every possible ounce of this valuable food . nothing is wasted ; Her speech was most eu- been lost . She had not withdrawn the money Agriculture , Lord Rhondda has decided not to Another process was the use of the raw nor sent notices of withdrawal for sums of £ 10 fix maximum prices for store cattle , and he potato . He had no experience of this , but one play of young animals was prettily illustrated The quickest way to produce fats is by breed thusiastically received and many questions were and £ 7 . She had never received that money . wishes to make it quite clear that any undue of the largest bakers in Glasgow was using He suggested that play was the education of thing done to increase the pig power in the by photographs of monkeys , a lion , and a bearing and feeding pigs . Pigs must be regarded asked as to the working of the collecting scheme The book was kept in the house . as the greatest fat assets we have - aud every- Alderman H. F. Russell , who was received When she inflation of the prices of store cattle cannot potatoes in this way by grinding them raw , went to send the book up to have the interest hereafter be held to be a reason for increasing the potato being kept from going discoloured these young creatures , although it might also with applause , followed Mrs. Clowes and spoke added in 1915 she inquired at the Post Office the maximum prices for fat cattle . country . Lord Rhondda realises the impor- of the pleasure it gave him in coming to Bros- by being covered with cold water . be a bubbling over of animal spirits . but could not find out who drew the money . The remainder of the lecture was a most tance of pig production and is entirely in In regard to the sale of potatoes or dry fascinating study of features which appear in favour of the keeping of pigs to the greatest having started feeding the school children three wood again . He congratulated the people or The io was drawn at Wigmore and the £ 7 at Leominster . I mash to bakers he suggested that local food child - animals and disappear in later life , the but do not do it extravagantly , " says Mr. days a week and hoped that next winter it possible extent . When an old lady , Mrs. Max- " Keep all the pigs you can , committees might open a depot and supply it field , was living with her she took out a policy one day per week . He spoke of what thes In Hereford the Commit- suggestion being that these are characteristics Prothero . on her life . Edwards had got the book and A famous , novelist writes to the would be five days . tee had taken an old shop . He advised no the policy . which belonged to an evolutionary ancestor . Press in praise of the pig : " With a suffi- meals mean to the children and also the sav special machinery , but manufacturers could An illustration of this is the frog , which begins ciency of pigs and potatoes , " says Mr. Rider ing in bread that it effected . supply machines , but until these could be ob- life as a fish . The baby elephant is born with Haggard , " we should never starve in Britain . " win in this terrible conflict it would be by th tained he suggested bakers should carry it out in a small way with present utensils . inen . cerned to carry child to strength into beating the enemy . book showing £ 19 19s . to her credit in April , farmers to pay prices for stores beyond what machinery was required and it would not be including the pouched animals of Australia , health of the people - and especially to young be helped by everyone who possesses a garde . in September last . This amount was transferred from an 1908 . At this point it was agreed that certain items in the list of furniture belonged to plain- tiff . Others defendant said she had had and others he claimed himself . the fat cattle prices warrant . A WELSH EXAMPLE . Recently it was reported in the Press that Sir Watkin Williams Wynn , one of the leading landlords in Wales , had called together his tenants and announced his intention of giving them an agricultural lead in the present Plaintiff declared that she had removed no national crisis as his ancestors had given them goods . Defendant had taken one load to a military lead in other days . one place and one to another . On December We learn from the Food Production Depart- Potato flour I was coming , but elaborate available for this season of potatoes . Even and hoofed animals . on the move in search of fresh pasture . The a mat of hair on the head and a beard which ( 1 ) In encouraging and assisting the feeding of pigs on farms without trenching on the the restricted stocks of cereals . etc. If we were to The Board of Agriculture feel that practical united efforts of the people at home and spoke suggests descent from the pre - historic inam - action to maintain and stimulate pig - production of the necessity of the nation praying more earnestly as to the outcome .. He urged all The young deer in its first year has under the present abnormal conditions can be the farmers to give their workmen a greater In reply to Mr. Foster , Mr. Roberts said moth . the cost of the smallest outfit - peeler , steamer two simple spikes as horns : These drop out taken in three directions : - and masher - would be £ 11 . The boiler would and horns with two spikes appear the next amount of ground in the fields for potato growing and spoke of the importance of grow- take a hundredweight and a half at a time . year and so on , until the magnificent antlers 4th he told her to come on the following Satur- ment that Sir Watkin has been in consultation Mr. Foster said it might be a convenience to of the adult stag are produd . That this ing as many potatoes as possible , as potatoes and pigs were going to be an enormous factor day but when she went there with a convey- with the authorities as to the cropping and smaller bakers to be able to buy the potatoes tells over again the old ste of evolution is in saving the country from want and famine . ance he refused to let her have the things . treatment of the arable land on his home farm ready mashed . What would be a fair charge ? suggested by the simple forms of , fossil horns . Among the articles she claimed were wedding and park , which form one of the finest Mr. Roberts said in Hereford they were re- The colours and markings of baby animals too , At the close of the meeting Mrs. Frank Rus- , presents and furniture given her by Miss demesnes in the Principality . sell moved a vote of thanks to Mrs. Clowes The farm is tailing the mash at 1d . per lb. suggested an interesting study . The infant Haines , niece of Mrs. Maxfield , after the about 585 acres in extent , the park about 300 out machinery and it did not take half an young of self - coloured animals are spotted or Mr. Russell who by their encouraging Mr. Collins said he had used potatoes with- lion is spotted like a leopard and many other words had helped them to carry on . She con- Until recently the whole of this land , In the course of plaintiff's evidence a letter with the exception of some 60 acres , was under hour longer . plus growth of gardens and allotments gratulated Mrs. Clowes on the honour that had latter's death . was handed to the Judge , sent by the defen- grass . dant to Mr. Tyrrell , in which serious charges some 280 acres . were made against plaintiff . Mr. Levick cross - examined plaintiff as to the various items of furniture and their history . of horses have been hard at work and 93 acres were sown with wheat last autumn . bulk . id not th ( 2 ) In arranging for the feeding of pigs on town waste and organising the collec- tion of such waste in large cities . ( 3 ) In the formation of village societies to and collect household waste and the sur- for the village pig . been conferred upon her by His Majesty the King . Mrs. Russell urged more of the people to join the War Savings Association and spok striped , including the emu , tapir , etc. Cignets to get whether the offspring of black or white swans , All vegetable waste should be utilised as pig were a dirty white suggesting a common food . Gardeners and allotment holders should ancestry . The claw found on the wings of keep a pig or pigs , among them , " organising of the necessity of money to win the war and some young birds including the duckling sug- a system whereby the waste is collected . gested the far off evolution from the reptile of Lord Rhondda wishes to encourage 60- pre - historic times . The oldest bird fossil that operative effort in pig keeping . how helpful it was.fhem not only to have It is to be such a good investments the 15s . 6d . War can neveu of sugar uit Savings ensure , but the fact that they were helping the nation and also putting by for the rainy days that would comé . The vote of thanks to the speakers was seconded by Mr. James . Mrs. Russell moved a vote of thanks to Mr. Thomas for so kindly presiding over the meet- WHOLESALE TREE FELLING . TENS OF THOUSANDS OF ACRES CLEARED . A wholesale destruction of woods was going on in the country , said Major Courthope , M.P. , on Tuesday , This year the ploughed area will be Mr. Brindley said his difficulty was Two tractors and six teams potatoes . through the local Food Control Committee . Mr. Roberts said they could be obtained Sir Watkin consulted with the Department , In reply to Mr. Batten , Mr. Roberts said as to the best use to which the remaining 187 the price of potatoes to bakers was £ 3 10s . In reply to the Judge Mr. Levick said he in- acres could be put ( 1 ) for the production of per ton ... tended that defendant should give evidence hunran food ; ( 2 ) for the production of the re- had been found furnished evidence of this , hoped that every set of allotments will have Councillor Southall asked if it would be de- being a creature with fully developed claws and he would contradict the evidence of the quirements of the live stock on the farm . The sirable for the Corporation to buy potatoes in a pig or pigs - and that the good old British on the wings , a long tail with feathers in porker will come into his own again . plaintiff . pairs all the way down , and teeth in its jaws .. With pigs in plenty , famine His Honour said he noticed that Mr. Levick Wheat , 93 acres ; oats , 134 acres ; barley , 8it could be done . The Food Control Commit- cropping for 1918 has been fixed as follows : - Mr. Roberts replied that was the only way The interesting story of how the sole became triumph .. had concluded his cross - examination without acres ; roots , 24 acres ; potatoes , 21 acres ; a tee bought the potatoes at £ 6 10s . per ton and These commenced life as ordinary fishes , later a flat fish was told each time by the young . any questions upon the letter of January 16th , total of 280 acres . SUGAR FOR JAM . Nearly half of the farm which was sent to Mr. Tyrrell by defendant . will thus be under the plough this season ; a sold them to the bakers at £ 3 10s , the Gov- descending to the bottom of the sea and lying Royal Commission on the Sugar Supply , an Lord Rhondda , after consultation with the ing .. If there was any foundation for those state- much larger proportion than that required by could only get the potatoes through the Food markable incident in this change is the be- ernment paying the difference . The baker on their side , gradually flattened out . A re- ments it would affect his opinion of the wife's the Government programme in the county as Control Committee . nounces that , so far as the position can at credit . Otherwise it appeared that the hus- a whole . haviour of the left eye of the fish , which present be foreseen , it will be po sible to band had made foul charges against his wife and had not attempted to substantiate them . The park , which was enclosed in the seven- Food Control Committees both in the Borough buried in the sand , travels to the , other side during the coming fruit season to ; en Councillor Southall said it seemed that the instead of remaining in its place and becoming allocate approximately 10,000 tons Mr. Levick said that so far as he was con- largely owing to the trees , but the deer have and Rural District had been lax , but they had of the fish's head and so remains in use . vate fruit growers to convert their own cerned he wanted plaintiff to have all that was been substantially reduced and sheep are being at once and get a supply of potatoes so that of thanks to Mr. Rowntree for his lecture , had no information about it . They must act Mr. W. St. G. Drennan , in proposing a vote into jam , without reducing the issues required at the annual meeting of the Royal Society for the owing to her . to supply fully the jam manufacturers who Protection of Birds . " Tens of thousands of acres grazed instead , whilst a considerable acreage His Honour : But how can I believe defen- of the Park is being reserved for hay . In the the bakers could have them at £ 3 10s . dant when he has made foul charges against view of the Department , as well as the local ton and five cwt , turn bad . Mr. Reynolds : Supposing the baker buys a but great , said he had by the wonderful key heavy demands for jam for the forces render which he described as not merely interesting serve the bulk of the urban and industrial of woods have been destroyed , but in many cases the population . The scarcity of butter and the destruction is hidden by means of leaving narrow belts of trees . By this time next year there will be attempt to substa Councillor Southall said that if the bakers fairyland and invited them to enter . In that their maximum output . which he possessed showed them a veritable it essential that the factories should maintain comparatively little soft - wood timber left in the bought their supply weekly from the Food lecture he had given them the benefit of many country , and hard - wood timber will have very much Control they would see the potatoes first . The distribution will be made by Food Con- decreased . The stumps of the recently felled trees The Mayor asked if any circular had been years of ardent and patient and loving work . trol Committees with the assistance of the War provide an ideal breeding ground for insects . " addressed to the Food Control Committees on He hoped it would not be the last time Mr. Agricultural Executive Committees . An under- Rowntree would come amongst them , but that taking will have to be given that the sugar the subject . it would be the first of many times they will not be used for any other purpose . Every we have the privilege of welcoming him applicant will be credited with having 13lb . of ceived and Mr. Rowntree briefly replied . jam in his possession for every pound of sugar Nearly 30,000 tons of seed potatoes have been The vote of thanks was very heartily re - supplied to him , and will be expected to forego ordered this season through the Food Produc- the purchase of jam for his household to this tion Department . Mr. A. Rouch was thanked for his able ser- extent . vices as lanternist . teenth century , is unsuitable for ploughing , his wife and does not attempt to substantiate Executive Committee , Sir Watkin has set an them ? admirable example deserving of wide emula- tion by landowners as a class . Mr. Levick agreed that the charges were most improper . Until he heard the letter read he did not know it had been written . John Ward , Shobdon , said that in 1916 some furniture was put in an empty cottage of his by Edwards and remained there for six months . Maria Radcliffe , said she had lived with Mrs. The furniture she claimed was Edwards . hers . Florence Bill , of Wolverhampton , sister of the plaintiff , gave evidence as to her sister's wedding presents and the furniture which Mrs. Maxfield left . This concluded the case for the plaintiff . DEATH OF A HEREFORD TRADESMAN . Mr. Roberts said this work was done through the Ministry of Food and he attended that The death has occurred of Mr. Augustus C. mittees had had full particulars . His business meeting supposing that the Food Control Com- Edwards , Alban House , Hereford , draper and there was to get the bakers to fall into line . furrier , in his eigthieth year . For some years Ald . Page ( Chairman of the Food Control he was a member of the Hereford Town Coun- Committee ) said he had not seen ary circular cil , and he took a keen interest in the erection on the subject at any of their meetings . They of the Victoria Bridge over the river Wye , and must find out what the orders were and what in the extension of the City Recreation qauntities were required from Leominster . Grounds . He was a Conservative . In reply to Councillor Southall Mr. Roberts to Leominster . No private grower will be allotted more than 10lb . of sugar in respect of each rationed per- In Vancouver they have repealed the by - law son in his household except upon an express which prohibited the keeping of pigs in the undertaking that he will , if required , place at municial area , and there is an active " Keep the disposal of the local Food Committee the a - Pig campaign . " " SEED POTATOES . Printed and Published for the Proprietor by A. T. SOUTHALL , at his Offices , 27 , Drapers Lane . Leominster . VOL . XI SALES BY By Messrs . EDW BAL LEOMINSTER H NEXT Friday , Apr SHOW A OF V HEAVY and L Leon Entries Close W Schedule and Entr Nate . All Farmer get a Permit to Se County Agricultural LEOMINSTER TUESDAY , M AT Cattle and S 11.30 ; Store Cat Entries kindly soli EDWARDS , Leominster , Herefo ST . MARY'S DWARDS , RUSS received instruct Williams , to Sell by FRIDAY , A by FARM IMPLEMENT BROUGHAM WAGONETTE by CAR , LUGGAGE CA CASKS , DAIRY UTE FURNITURE , includi Catalogues of the Hereford and Tenbury Sale at 1.30 By Mr. R. R. H. G Auctioneer , Va and PROPERTY and MORTGAGE BROKE TRATOR under the Act , 1908. REPORT VEYS carefully and HOTEL and PUBL VALUATIONS for GAGE , ASSESSMEN PERIODICAL SAL Prompt settlements ESTABLIS Offices : - Croftmead , Kingsl Leominster Office MILTON ANNUAL MR . R. H. GEOR at the Bateman SATURDAY , at 3 o'clock in the a on the Rich Feeding and Orchards on M about 200 acres in 13 The Land is well s shade , intersected by distances of Leominste and about one mile Station . The Lots m tion at the farm catalogues may be an HEYGATE , Esq . , Milto Herefordshire ; or from mead , Kingsland . EY Upwards of 55 Acres near the Town M R. R. H. GEOR structions from the above Grass Ke Hotel , Leominster , on TUESDAY , A at 3.30 punctually , in Further particulars i and catalogues . By Messrs . E. H E. Hamm Auctioneers , Valu and Insura Conduct all classes o VALUATIONS FOR F and BOOK DEBTS Attention , Prompt Set ESTABLIS Offices : Highbury STOCKMOR MESSRS . E. HAM by Auction , on SATURDAY , M all the Household Fur Powlhouse on wheels , late Mr. Haines ; and Three Heifer Wean yean ) , Ewe and 2 lan head of Poultry and E Williams , late of Dog Sale at 1 CORN SQUARE MESSRS . E. HAM by Auction , on THURSDAY NEXT ( Marke One and a - half Tons of Ware , Furniture and Sale at O Preferential milk tre nursing mothers is now pean countries . Germ try to establish it , but some months in Aust more recently in Swed Switzerland , and now Britain . The usual day , but it is not alw that ration , and both hhd to reduce the amo just managed to rest after urtailing it . |